"The Hateful Eight" is an ultrawide bore. If you have the option, and you're committed to seeing the thing, you should see Quentin Tarantino's latest in one of its 100 or so limited-release "roadshow" screenings, projected on film,...

Bright and early Wednesday morning Anthony Mackie and Anna Faris will announce this year’s Screen Actors Guild nominees. Will you be up? Probably not! But I will be, ready to tell you really important information, like how meaningful XYZ actress finds...

With little more than 48 hours to go until presidential candidate Donald Trump is slated to host "Saturday Night Live," Latino advocacy groups continue to pressure NBC to cancel the appearance.
On Tuesday, a group of 67 Latino artists,...

Quentin Tarantino has begun shooting his Western "The Hateful Eight" in Telluride, Colo., for The Weinstein Co., which is planning a release this year.
James Parks, Dana Gourrier, Zoe Bell, Gene Jones, Keith Jefferson, Lee Horsley, Craig...

FX announced that it is not moving forward with a third season of "The Bridge," the gritty drama about two detectives on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border who are forced to work together.
John Landgraf, chief executive of FX Networks,...

Quiet nobility is all very well, but what actor doesn't relish a good bad boy now and then?
In "Dom Hemingway," a facile, Guy Ritchie-esque crime jape, Jude Law goes to town, dines out on the scenery, spits out the scenery and then chews it...

Robert Rodriguez's new "Machete Kills" is the strongest example yet of the corner the filmmaker seems to have painted himself into, a sad funhouse of bad movies made in thrall of bad movies. Even the self-sufficiency of Rodriguez having his...

"The Heat," starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, is the latest entry in a long-running and much-loved movie joke: the buddy-cop comedy. In this case, a bosom-buddy cop comedy.
The movie follows a well-beaten path. They're cops, they're...

NEW YORK — While promoting a film, most actors wax poetic about how fantastic their costars were to work with on set. Few, however, actually mean it — and even the ones who do rarely form the type of bond that "The Heat" stars Melissa McCarthy...

Charlie Sheen is changing his name to Carlos Estevez in the upcoming film "Machete Kills," according to reports.
The actor is going back to his birth name and Latino roots, using the moniker Carlos Estevez in the trailer for action film...

The Screen Actors Guild handed out three of its five film awards Sunday night to performers in the 1960s civil rights drama "The Help," injecting a little excitement into the Oscar race.
The cast of the film received the group's top honor,...

What sets the Screen Actors Guild Awards apart from all the other major televised awards shows? It doesn't bestow best picture honors. This guild keeps its focus on performances -- its trophy is called "the Actor."
So the race to watch...

John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in early...

No shock that “Hugo” and “The Artist” dominated this year’s Oscar nominations (for a full list, go here. I even wouldn’t have been surprised if the dog from “The Artist” had scored a nom. But there were quite a few pleasant surprises and head-scratchers...